From Sodomy to Sympathy: LDS Elites’ Discursive Construction of Homosexuality Over Time

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T., J. E. Sumerau, and Emily Williams. 2015. “From Sodomy to Sympathy: LDS Elites’ Discursive Construction of Homosexuality Over Time.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 54(2):291–310. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12180. You can download this article here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Contemporary Religion and the Cisgendering of Reality

Citation:Sumerau, J. E., Ryan T. Cragun, and Lain A. B. Mathers. 2016. “Contemporary Religion and the Cisgendering of Reality.” Social Currents 3(3):293–311. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/2329496515604644. The article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Empiricism: Why I Left Mormonism

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T. 2015. “Empiricism: Why I Left Mormonism.” The Human Prospect: A Neohumanist Perspective 4(3):54–62. This article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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The Mormon Gender Issues Survey: A Quantitative Analysis of U.S. Respondents

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T. and Michael Nielsen. 2015. “The Mormon Gender Issues Survey: A Quantitative Analysis of U.S. Respondents.” Pp. 297–318 in Voices for Equality: Ordain Women and Resurgent Feminism, edited by G. Shepherd, L. F. Anderson, and G. Shepherd. Draper, UT: Greg Kofford Books. You can download this chapter here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Trans-forming Mormonism: Transgender Perspectives on Priesthood Ordination and Gender

Citation:Sumerau, J. and Ryan T. Cragun. 2015. “Trans-Forming Mormonism: Transgender Perspectives on Priesthood Ordination and Gender.” Pp. 117–36 in Voices for Equality: Ordain Women and Resurgent Feminism, edited by G. Shepherd, L. F. Anderson, and G. Shepherd. Draper, UT: Greg Kofford Books. This chapter can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Simple Markov Model for Estimating the Growth of Nonreligion in the United States

Citation:Stinespring, John and Ryan T. Cragun. 2015. “Simple Markov Model for Estimating the Growth of Nonreligion in the United States.” Science, Religion, and Culture 2(3):96–103. Science, Religion, and Culture is an open-access journal. You can download the article directly from their site. Or you can download it here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Atheism Looking In: On the Goals and Strategies of Organized Nonbelief

Citation:Langston, Joseph A., Joseph H. Hammer, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2015. “Atheism Looking In: On the Goals and Strategies of Organized Nonbelief.” Science, Religion, and Culture 2(3):70–85. doi: https://doi.org/10.17582/journal.src/2015/2.3.70.85. Or you can download it here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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How to Defeat Religion in 10 Easy Steps

    Description: Do you want the greatest challenges of the day to be addressed with thoughtful, reality-based solutions rather than with cherry-picked quotations from scripture? Do you want to shrink religion—especially fundamentalist religion—to the point that it plays no noticeable role in American public life? Do you want right-wing religious leaders to be so […]

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